iPad/Android: Avid magazine readers will want to take note of this new app for the iPad and Android tablets. Next Issue gives you access to over 30 major magazines (including Wired, Real Simple, and Bon Appétit) for $10 to $14 a month.

Next Issue is like previously mentioned Zinio for digital magazine reading, except Next Issue offers a single subscription for unlimited magazine reading. It also focuses on just the most popular magazines, rather than thousands of publications.

A premium plan for $14.99 a month adds weekly magazines: Entertainment Weekly, People, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, and Time.

So is it worth it? If you subscribe to a lot of magazines already, you could save some money and get access to even more magazines by subscribing to Next Issue. For example, if you subscribe to All You, Real Simple, Wired, Money, In Style, Bon Appetit, and Popular Mechanics, the cost is about the same as using Next Issue — $117.29 a year or $9.77 a month (based on the magazine prices on their websites). The New Yorker alone is $69.99 a year or $5.87 a month, making upgrading to the Unlimited Premium plan attractive if you read that.

You can also buy individual magazine subscriptions or issues.

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The app itself offers some nice features for magazine reading: a table of contents, some interactivity in the pages (depending on the magazine), and easy navigation. Unfortunately, there's no way to clip pages virtually or share them, although I guess you could take a screenshot of the page, which is less than ideal. Also, a bunch of negative comments for the Android tablet version suggest there are issues with downloading magazines, but it might be fixed with a reinstall of the app (downloading worked okay for me on the iPad), YMMV.

Next Issue promises to add more titles, as well as more social and personalization features this year. A 30-day free trial is available if you want to check out this new way to read magazines (just remember to cancel before the 30 days is up if you don't want to continue. You should also contact your print magazines to cancel them to avoid duplication if you do continue to subscribe to Next Issue).